[patch] Please consider adding a gtk frontend to apt-listchanges

[Michael Vogt]

Attached is a patch to add a apt-listchanges gtk frontend. Feedback is welcome.
I can take care of uploading it if you approve it.

I think it would be cool if apt-listchanges would accept a
APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=gtk enviroment. This would make apt-listchanges more
friendly to graphical install enviorment like update-manager or synaptic. I'll
add that too if you agree with this idea.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Created an attachment (id=1443)
patch to add a gtk2/glade frontend to apt-listchanges

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Shouldn't there be a suggests on some version of pygtk?

Unfortunately, apt-listchanges isn't in arch yet, and my CVS repository is
inaccessible due to hardware failures, but I have no problems with your patch.

Feel free to upload apt-listchanges with this patch for testing purposes. Bear
in mind that we're in feature freeze now, though, and we need to be very focused
on stabilization and completion of our existing targets, so going forward,
features like this will need to be deferred to hoary+1, and resources should not
be spent on them until that time. The preview release is only two weeks away! :-)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Shouldn't there be a suggests on some version of pygtk?
>
> Unfortunately, apt-listchanges isn't in arch yet, and my CVS repository is
> inaccessible due to hardware failures, but I have no problems with your patch.
>
> Feel free to upload apt-listchanges with this patch for testing purposes. Bear
> in mind that we're in feature freeze now, though, and we need to be very focused
> on stabilization and completion of our existing targets, so going forward,
> features like this will need to be deferred to hoary+1, and resources should not
> be spent on them until that time. The preview release is only two weeks away! :-)

As discussed in the update-manager bugreport that lead to the creation of this
patch (#6828) I agree that we should postpone this feature for hoary+1 :)

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

gtk support is part of breezy.